Trade Liberalization and Trade Preferences

Michaely (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) presents a collection of 11 individual essays, written over the course of the past decade, which address a variety of questions surrounding trade liberalization and preferential trade agreements between countries. Among the topics discussed are the tensions between "free" (or universal) trade liberalization versus preferential bilateral agreements, the significance of the size of an economy for the evaluation of the bilateral agreements, the role of country proximity in affecting the desirability for trade agreements, and assessment tools for evaluating trade agreements. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR